The 2CV was a wartime child of the rural communities of France where the test of a car was whether it would drive over a ploughed field without cracking a tray of eggs, rather than be first away from the traffic lights or sport a designer body.

Unlike pancake Houston, the terrain is a series of humps and bumps and Watson would, years ago, roll you over the humps in a rolling 2CV with a rapid-fire description of all that flashed by: every gatepost, every cast-iron villa, every funny doorway seemed to have a story, '.

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